[expert] How to get dock apps and the like to auto start under blackbox in Mandrake 8.1

2002-04-05 Thread Simon Naish
Hi, I've been playing with blackbox recently, it gives me more headroom to play dvds without skipping than Kde, and found gkrellm which is cool. Problem is in the blackbox docs they say stick the command gkrellm -w into a file called ~.xinitrc which isnt there in Mandrake 8.1 . Making this

[expert] How to get dock apps and the like to auto start under blackbox in Mandrake 8.1

2002-04-05 Thread Simon Naish
Hi, I've been playing with blackbox recently, it gives me more headroom to play dvds without skipping than Kde, and found gkrellm which is cool. Problem is in the blackbox docs they say stick the command gkrellm -w into a file called ~.xinitrc which isnt there in Mandrake 8.1 . Making this

Re: [expert] changing default document on apache in 8.2

2002-04-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 00:04:27 -0800 (PST) faisal gillani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am having some problem in changing the default document name in apache server cant seem to find it can you tell me where to change it ? Check: /etc/httpd/conf/[common]httpd.conf: DirectoryIndex

[expert] Use of special characters

2002-04-05 Thread Alexander Arzberger
Hi all, I need to use some special characters, for ex. ã to use in Staroffice. There is a way to insert these mannualy (insert symbol) and there appears an ASCII code. How can I type such symbols, using ASCII code? Alt-n does not type anything. Thanks Alex Want to buy your Pack or

[expert] KDE 3 test

2002-04-05 Thread falcaraz
I followed the civileme way (message in newbie list): First of all I haven't enought spaces in my /opt directory, so I did: mv /opt /usr/share/opt and then ln -s /usr/share/opt /opt. then cd /directory with the kde3 packages, in my case /disk/kde3 urpmi unixODBC (civileme wrotte unixodbc but

[expert] XFree 4.2 fails to reopen the USB mouse device at APM resume

2002-04-05 Thread Charles Bueche
Hi all, my setup : hardware : laptop Dell 5000e, BIOS rel 6 OS : Mandrake 8.2, kernel 2.4.18 XFree86 setup : touchpad (/dev/psaux) as CorePointer, Logitech USB Wheelmouse (/dev/input/mouse0) as SendCoreEvents Problem : when resuming from APM-suspend-to-ram, the Logitech mouse is sometimes not

Re:[expert] KDE 3 test

2002-04-05 Thread Syed Irfan
there has been an update to libarts and arts rpms for more details look at my post in dot.kde.org http://dot.kde.org/1017860068/1017936611/1017953229/1018005189/ hope this helps with the sound server I followed the civileme way (message in newbie

Re: [expert] Running GWBASIC programs

2002-04-05 Thread kwan
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Phil wrote: A friend has a GWBASIC program that he wants to run under Linux. I remember reading about a BASIC interpreter for Linux however a quick search didn't reveal anything useful. Besides the other BASIC interpreters that someone else mentioned, you might also try

Re: [expert] monitor refresh rates

2002-04-05 Thread kwan
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Steve wrote: Can someone please help me with setting up my monitor refresh rates? My monitor( CTX PR710) is capable of 1152x864 with a vertical refresh rate of either 85Hz or 100Hz, but X keeps on wanting to set my monitor at a refresh rate of 75Hz. How in the heck can

Re: [expert] No sound from sound card

2002-04-05 Thread Pavan Balellugari
hi .. i could hear mp3 file from xmms but i am unable to play a CD, it plys but no sound.. in aumix i did unmute all. in aumix what does the green / red buttons on the left mean. also is there any other tool i could use instead of aumix?? pavan --- Onur Kucuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [expert] KDE 3.0

2002-04-05 Thread Nelson Bartley
Oh... we're talkin about them... just on the cooker list, as mandrake has released their own packages. NB On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 23:54, Stephen Boulet wrote: I'm surprised no one has talked about the kde 3.0 rpms the kde project has realeased. Did anyone install them? Experiences? --

[expert] chooseSessionListWidget during XFree86 login

2002-04-05 Thread Earle Jason
Hello all! I'm having trouble with XFree86 4.2.0. My box is a IBM 300PL with an embedded S3 Trio 3D graphics card. I blew it away and installed Mandrake 8.2 -- no problems. I then upgraded to XFree86 4.2.0 (it was using 3.3.6 or something - why such an old version on a brand new release?)

[expert] KD3 test

2002-04-05 Thread falcaraz
1) Installed arts and libarts rpms from the page mentioned by several in the list and now sound works like a charm. ^_^ 2) Obtanied the noarch file with Spanish, now I have Spanish language ^_^ 3) DracConf just run in text mode, in kde3 and the others windows manager. Perhaps some lib has

[expert] group for postfix files

2002-04-05 Thread David Relson
Hi, I have two Mandrake 8.2 systems and have noticed groups without entries in /etc/groups. For example, here are the listings of /var/spool/postfix/public from the two machines: [relson@osage /]$ ls -l /var/spool/postfix/public total 0 prw--w--w-1 postfix 35 0 Apr 5 10:42

[expert] world writeable files

2002-04-05 Thread David Relson
Greetings, I'm running Mandrake 8.2 with msec level 2. Each day /var/log/boot.log gets a Security Warning: World Writeable files found : message added to it along with a list of files (shown below). Is this really a problem? Should I simply run chmod o-w for each of these files? Thanks.

[expert] msec typo

2002-04-05 Thread David Relson
Greetings, msec says Security Warning: World Writeable files found : at the beginning of thee messages it logs to /var/log/boot.log. The word Writeable is incorrectly spelled. It should be Writable. David David Relson

Re: [expert] world writeable files

2002-04-05 Thread Rob Gillen
Or better yet, is there a way to get the security check to ignore sockets (which most of these are)? David Relson wrote: Greetings, I'm running Mandrake 8.2 with msec level 2. Each day /var/log/boot.log gets a Security Warning: World Writeable files found : message added to it along

[expert] rpmdrake will not run remotely

2002-04-05 Thread tom
when I ssh into my Mandrake 8.0 intel box from my SPARC Solaris box and run rpmdrake, I get the following error with a quick flash on the screen. Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) serial 945 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0 Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid

[expert] msec patch [ was: world writeable files]

2002-04-05 Thread David Relson
At 11:18 AM 4/5/02, you wrote: Or better yet, is there a way to get the security check to ignore sockets (which most of these are)? Below is a patch that excludes sockets (and also replaces a numeric value by the proper named constant (MACRO)). Hopefully it can get added to 8.2 and cooker.

Re: [expert] OT-Borland getting paranoid?

2002-04-05 Thread Dave Naylor
Hello jipe You wrote about Re: [expert] OT-Borland getting paranoid? On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 16:46:44 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Borland might be getting a little carried away. I dled and installed JB6 today and here is a facsimile of the License Key they

Re: [expert] Running GWBASIC programs

2002-04-05 Thread messmate
Hi, to run basic (dos) programs in Linux you need to install the dos emulator. He's comes also with a basic interpreter (don't remember the distrib). If your friends basic program is compiled then there is no pb to run it in the emulator. I tryed it e few mounths ago without any pb. mess-mate

Re: [expert] No sound from sound card

2002-04-05 Thread Onur Kucuk
PB hi .. i could hear mp3 file from xmms but i am unable PB to play a CD, it plys but no sound.. in aumix i did PB unmute all. in aumix what does the green / red PB buttons on the left mean. also is there any other PB tool i could use instead of aumix?? I personally choose kmix. In

Re: [expert] OT-Borland getting paranoid?

2002-04-05 Thread jipe
hi dave! sigh sorry! ;)) bye jipe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] How to get dock apps and the like to auto start underblackbox in Mandrake 8.1

2002-04-05 Thread Michael Holt
On stardate Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Simon Naish wrote: Hi, I've been playing with blackbox recently, it gives me more headroom to play dvds without skipping than Kde, and found gkrellm which is cool. Problem is in the blackbox docs they say stick the command gkrellm -w into a file called ~.xinitrc

Re: [expert] RealPlayer8 LM8.2 - Freezing on Startup

2002-04-05 Thread Sevatio
Thanks very much!!! I had no idea there was a RealOne player for *nix. :-) I hope the new version is not spyware with popup ads. Sevatio J. Grant wrote: i get this on 8.1 as well, its a RealPlayer Bug that has not been fixed, it relates to access to the sound card i think. if you kill

Re: [expert] OT-Borland getting paranoid?

2002-04-05 Thread Dave Naylor
Hello jipe You wrote about Re: [expert] OT-Borland getting paranoid? sigh sorry! ;)) S'alright, I had a bad day at work :) -- 0 Dave Naylor | [---] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Problem with LM82 and modem

2002-04-05 Thread Oscar
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 01:30, Olly P escribió: On Thursday 04 April 2002 15:42, óscar typed: Thank you for your answer. But I'm afraid that this is not the problem. In fact, the modem is *not* dialing. I believe that the problem is in the modem initialisation. If I activate the log

Re: [expert] evolution: have to open twice before reading mail

2002-04-05 Thread Oscar
El jue, 04-04-2002 a las 21:10, Michael Holt escribió: Hey all, A strange problem that I was wondering if anyone else has noticed? My wife uses evolution but the first time she opens the program, she has to close it and re-open it before it will give her access to the inbox. Any

Re: [expert] KDE 3 test

2002-04-05 Thread Damian
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I followed the civileme way (message in newbie list): First of all I haven't enought spaces in my /opt directory, so I did: mv /opt /usr/share/opt and then ln -s /usr/share/opt /opt. then cd /directory with the kde3 packages,

Re: [expert] ifconfig help - setting up a VPN

2002-04-05 Thread Woody Green
You have the FreeS/WAN (freeswan package) on Mandrake 8.2 (may also be on 8.1, I'm not sure) for IPsec implementation. It should interface with the Cisco router with minimal difficulty. Check out www.freeswan.org for online documentation setting up IPsec with freeswan. We use it here at work,

[expert] konsole parameters

2002-04-05 Thread Kevin Fonner
Is their a way that I can create an icon to open up a konsole window with it's own path and environment variables? Also I noticed in konsole under kde I can have a single window with several sessions open. Is it possible to have a single window open up a window with 2 or 3 sessions each with it's

Re: [expert] konsole parameters

2002-04-05 Thread Jason Guidry
Kevin Fonner wrote: Is their a way that I can create an icon to open up a konsole window with it's own path and environment variables? Also I noticed in konsole under kde I can have a single window with several sessions open. Is it possible to have a single window open up a window with 2 or

Re: [expert] monitor refresh rates

2002-04-05 Thread Lorne Shantz
I was surprised to see that my Viewsonic A110 monitor wasn't listed in the common settings. I thought it was a very common monitor. ?? Even Redmon linux has it. ?? I had this same problem You had a couple of years ago. It was pretty common to have a monitor that didn't have preset info in it.

Re: [expert] Running GWBASIC programs

2002-04-05 Thread Phil
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:32, you wrote: search for yabasic on google or freshmeat.net or tell your friend to learn C :) JG Thank you. I considered rewriting the program for him in C++ but I decided that it would be best if I didn't get involved. -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to

Re: [expert] evolution: have to open twice before reading mail

2002-04-05 Thread Michael Holt
On stardate 6 Apr 2002, Oscar wrote: Hi, Mike, Try running killev before running evolution. Good luck. saludos, oscar. ok, I tried starting evolution several times (about 20); I was able to reproduce the original problem only a few times. I did get the problem to happen even when I did

Re: [expert] monitor refresh rates

2002-04-05 Thread gnerd
That's the beauty of Linux. People who make distributions are free to target specific audiences. Mandrake started out targeting 586+ processors, and the peripherals one would reasonably expect for that class of machine. Red Hat typically targets cutting-edge folks who want the latest and

[Fwd: Re: [expert] monitor refresh rates]

2002-04-05 Thread gnerd
I remember now. CHEEK! Joseph Cheek. He made a pretty tasty distribution. Mike Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] monitor refresh rates Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 22:18:38 -0500 From: gnerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL

[expert] Local news (OT)

2002-04-05 Thread Michael Holt
Today in Beaverton Oregon, a 34 year old female elementary school teacher decided she didn't feel like teaching an afternoon science class, so she called in a bomb threat to the local police. She then proceeded to use the same phone to call in and ask if her class was canceled! You know, isn't

Re: [expert] msec typo

2002-04-05 Thread Damian
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 12:56, David Relson escribió: Greetings, msec says Security Warning: World Writeable files found : at the beginning of thee messages it logs to /var/log/boot.log. The word Writeable is incorrectly spelled. It should be Writable. David i'm sure when i get

Re: [expert] kdm wierdness in 8.2

2002-04-05 Thread Damian
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 02:51, Ric Tibbetts escribió: On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 16:07, Thomas Gamble wrote: Since upgrading to 8.2 I have noticed that changes to the login manager don't stick. In particular, changing 'Show Users' to 'None'. After a couple of login cycles this reverts back

Re: [expert] Running GWBASIC programs

2002-04-05 Thread civileme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Phil wrote: A friend has a GWBASIC program that he wants to run under Linux. I remember reading about a BASIC interpreter for Linux however a quick search didn't reveal anything useful. Besides the other BASIC interpreters that someone else

[expert] USB and/or Firewire disk on PPC ML8.2beta2 ?

2002-04-05 Thread Rick Thomas
For the PPC Linux experts, Does there exist at way to use a USB removable disk drive (such as the Imation Super Disk drive) or a Firewire (hot-plugable, but otherwise non-removable) hard-drive on Mandrake Linux for PPC? I'm using the 8.2beta2 version. Presumably, I have to load a modular

[expert] LM8.2: Quake3 still refuses to initialize sound...

2002-04-05 Thread Frederic Soulier
Hi, (I apologize for this huge email in advance...) I've been trying to get the sound going in Quake3 since I installed LM8.2 but without success... (note: it works fine with the sound disabled at startup). It works fine in LM8.1 I do not have esd running. I've tried to strace -f ./quake.x86

[expert] LM8.2: Opera6.0b1 from Club download section

2002-04-05 Thread Frederic Soulier
Hi I've installed Opera 6.0b1 last night (from the Club download section) and when I try to go to a URL (anyone) I get the message at the bottom of the screen: Looking up host name www.mandrakeforum.com it stays there indefinitely... basically something stops Opera from looking up the host

[expert] Filters

2002-04-05 Thread Jarmo Kettunen
Is there any way to set filters forinstance in Kmail,so that it drops mails FROM somebody not wanted? I would like to set aol.com to banned filter...I get huge number spam from there... I have looked from my ISP,but there is no way to set filters to block out unwanted messages. Regards